Bible Question: You say all the children are in heaven. What if they are not baptized? Where then? |
Bible Answer: Baptism is not a condition of salvation. It is an act of obedience and a ceremony of initiation. That part of the answer is easy. As for whether all children are in heaven or not that is a more difficult question to answer. The Bible does not address this. So none of us have the right to speculate. As Christian's we have faith that God is just and good. And that whatever He decides will be just. Many well meaning pastors give us the easy pat answer that all children who die are in heaven. We really can't know that. But to be honest, our hope is not in going to heaven. While the Bible say's "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord."(2 Corinthians 5:8 KJV) -- which of course we shall be -- in spirit. Our hope is of the resurrection of our physical body. And that physical body shall live on a new earth. Our spirit shall be present with the Lord until that day of resurrection. Then we shall be resurrected in His likeness and be with him physically as well as in spirit. Alot of our understanding of heaven comes down from myth's that permeated the Church throughout the ages. Most of those myths are based on Greek mythology. Yet we've come to accept these things as though the Bible says them -- when it does not. The real theme throughout the Bible is the attainment of the resurrection - not heaven. |